Category - Performing Arts
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Ghost Channels: Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been periodic outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, o...
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Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A fascinating look into what happens when comedy becomes political and politics becomes comedySatirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citiz...
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Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an econ...
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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Century of Scarface
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Scarface starring Al Pacino—Brian DePalma’s 1983 gangster film that shook the world, shocked the critics, and...
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Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican...
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It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed ...
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Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially u...
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Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Post-World War II America has often been mythologized by successive generations as an exceptional period of prosperity and comfort. At a time whe...
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Sense8: Transcending Television
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychol...
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The Rise of K-Dramas: Essays on Korean Television and Its Global Consumption
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Korean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their global fandom continues to grow. Despite cultural differences, non-Asia...
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Voice and the Young Actor: A workbook and DVD
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /There are thousands of students enrolled in school drama classes and yet very often young actors cannot be heard, are culturally encouraged to tr...
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The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges th...
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Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living ...
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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world ...
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Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories...
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The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /How films are conceived,planned, and produced leaves a mark upon the films, directly and structurally. The relations between film style and mode ...
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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese American...
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Fooling with the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Using Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dissects the peculiar appeals and potential dangers o...
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It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"A read so riveting, it's not hard to imagine watching it unfold on Sunday nights." --The Associated Press "An incisive account that is more than a...
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True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium--and what t...
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Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is ...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's ...
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The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the original movie r...
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Watching While Black Rebooted!: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televi...
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